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VERRRRRY grassy Bullshit hmmmm...... i don't think so! go look all you want. but take a weed-whacker and a trowel.

well if you wanna be all public serviced and all. i thought you were advocating some lame glue-in technology.

GIRL YOU DON"T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSIN!! oh wait... me too. all but the last one

and they will hold in icy cracks and fit in weird pockets BUT THEY AINT SAFE!! gimme gimme

Hey people - TRICAMS ARE INHERENTLY UNSAFE! Better give yours to me. I will safely dispose of them

i don't want to redpoint 14b. it seems pretty boring! but i am impressed someone could do it barefoot and no chalk, 54 years old is even cooler.

the wedge is the bottom part.

yeah, if I was god, the vampyroteuthis infernalis would be one of my proudest inventions; but i'd probably look like a giant snafflehound with 3 eyes just to freak people out.

wedge type anchors rock for granite, yo.

Less ankle flexibility and sensitivity is a liability when it comes to usually irregular and bulging water ice, not to mention mixed. Also AT boots dont take techy crampons as well. Freneys if its warm and Koflach Vertical if its cold. Youre gonna be stuck on WI3 max. all year if you wear them AT boots........

what's up with God's manboobs and pink shirt? If he can look like whatever He wants, why doesn't he look like Tom Cruise or sumpin? How come he looks like a fat old guy?

see HERE catbirdteat posted same news story hours ago

what jk said but additionally hike north from the Monkey Face along the trail following the cliff line. route starts in a bit of a dihedral (in case there's other bolt routes on the same cliff now) about 300 yards (i nearly said meters ) north of Monkey Face. 3rd pitch is full pitch traverse to left. dont get suckered by a bolt or two you can see up and right from 2nd belay.

it's neat and all but i thought the 54 year old Italian guy who climbed a 14b roof route barefoot and chalkless was cooler

i guess the fact i have to guess you mean coefficient of friction, and that I don't know how to fix my DVD drive, disqualifies me from true geekiness

naw, it was a coffee table type book with lots of pictures and then this big block of text. It was sopmething like Bears of North America. It had polar bears and black bears and kermodes and grizzlies.

dropping acid and free soloing

WTF is "mu"?

well, it's not the project grizzly guy, and i don't think its the same desensitizer guy because he was an actual academic funded researcher, not some recovering drug addict. i wish i could remember what book it was! then again a wild animal is never truly predictable, just look at Roy Horn

i read a great article once about a guy who decided he would research bears by getting them sensitized to his presence the way Dian Fossey or Jane Goodall sensitized the primates they studied to their presence. His journal was pretty cool. IIRC the entries went from something like "Day 7: Big male growled and bluff-charged to within 20 feet when he scented me" to "Day 119: approached Male #3, who was eating salmon. Pulled salmon out of jaws. Male #3 appeared confused, slowly walked away to get another salmon"

Twenty-two ton loader in the first three gears, reaching a final top speed of 25 kph (15 mph) through a wall of glass and bricks. Why oh why couldn't there be a video? there's a two hour documentary called "Project Grizzly"

i have the opposite problem, i hit the drive with my knee by accident while it was out, and now its stuck out and will not close

compo makes me wear a hard hat in the bush for just this reason, but its the first time i ever heard of a tree branch actually hitting anyone. jon, did you notice if it made a sound? you could help solve an important philosophical conundrum

The reason there is a standing committee on permanent geographic names, is so that people don't automatically get to name something whatever they want. in essence it is to protect us from boring names like "Holyoke". the committee is supposed to evaluate proposals for new names and accept them if there is a strong rationale for the name, or reject it if there is already a better name (like a native name) or if it duplicates an existing name (Red Mountain aside obviously) or for similar reasons such as obscenity or political incorrectness or whatever.

VERRRRRY grassy